American Recreation: A Field Study

This past Fourth of July, the photographer Emiliano Granado and his friend Daniel Pasley set out on a monthlong road trip across the American West. Granado and Pasley, who consider themselves “unofficial anthropologists,” travelled seven thousand miles, stopping at notable landmarks and events. Their goal was to create a field guide to contemporary American recreation—a lasting document and photographic record of how we spend our vacations. Their findings, while light-hearted, offer a broad look at a summer in the American West, which, as evidenced by Granado’s photographs, is driven by a connection to the land, and, as expected, one’s camera.